Mid-afternoon the weather broke and we had an hour’s thunder and lightning, plus a short but heavy shower of rain.  But a whole 10 members braved the heat and potential wet to run trains.

Trains on the back straight….

Plenty of continental stock on view….

And the occasional British interloper….

I ran in my new Sonic J50.  Very smooth, straight out of the box, and just a lovely model.  I’m tempted to get another one!  Only negative is that the chassis won’t be much use for other prototypes due to the long, high, tanks on the J50.  These are all filled with the chassis casting, making a model with a different shaped tank difficult.  It looked very much at home on a short train of coal wagons.

I also finally got to test my Gatwick Express Class 73.  Bought from someone in Germany off N Gauge Forum, I got it sent to my Ruth in Berlin to save postage.  We met up twice and forgot all about it.  It was finally given to me last month, the day before her wedding!  It runs well, after all that.  I also ran two of the new NGS ferry wagons.  A little light, and could be more free-running, but lovely models.  I may buy two more….

Lucas joined in the British freight theme with this Q1 and another train of coal wagons.

It was good to have Brian with us again, and for the usual video…..

I’ll be taking blogging easy for the next few weeks, just adding a post when something comes to my attention.  Mind you, last time I said that, I found lots of things to write about….